Events News

LFI (LIGHTFAIR International) will introduce the LFI Controls & Connectivity Forum and a host of conference advancements as a part of the world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference. The event will take place 3rd to 7th May, 2015,  in New York.

STI Electronics announces that Mark McMeen, VP of Manufacturing and Engineering Services, will present during the 'High-Reliability Cleaning and Conformal Coating Conference', 18th to 20th November, 2014 in Schaumburg, Illinois. Organised by IPC and SMTA, the conference will cover technological developments in all areas of cleaning and coating applied to electronics assemblies.

CEA-Leti will present 17 papers at the 2014 IEEE IEDM (International Electron Devices Meeting), 15th to 17th December in San Francisco. The total is the most ever for Leti and includes four invited papers.

SMTA and IPC announce the High-Reliability Cleaning and Conformal Coating Conference scheduled to take place 18th to 20th November, 2014 in Illinois, USA. The conference intensely focuses on best practices and new innovative technologies for meeting today’s manufacturing challenges and producing reliable hardware.

Top scientists from NASA will join UK academics and industry leaders to debate the revolutionary green technologies which could power tomorrow’s air and spacecrafts, at a conference by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. As the world becomes increasingly concerned with climate change, international civil aviation’s contribution to lowering carbon emissions has never been in greater focus.

At electronica 2014, last week, Electrolube exhibited for the first time. In Hall A6, which was dedicated to the automotive sector, the company presented its conformal coatings, resins and contact lubricant products. Hall B1 was dedicated to sensors, micro- and nano-systems, MEMS technologies and electromechanical/system peripherals, where Electrolube demonstrated its capabilities in thermal management.

Tabor Electronics launched the WaveXciter C-series Arbitrary Waveform Generators (AWGs) at electronica in Munich. The C-series models include the new and enhanced WX2181/2/4C, single, dual and four channel 2.3GS/s 14bit, and the new WX1281/2/4C 1.25GS/s 14bit, single, dual and four channels.

  In the year of electronica's 50th brithday, the number of international visitors increased from 47 to 50%. The trade fair, which is the world's largest event for the electronics industry, revealed that the future is connected – from wearables and cars to entire towns and cities.

electronica 2014 was the launch pad for demmel products latest iLCD models with capacitive touch screens. The 5.0in, 5.7in, and 7in iLCDs are now available with projected capacitive touch technology making them robust for operation outdoors and where vandal-proof designs are necessary.

Today, at electronica (14th November), the results of the Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge - Europe Analog Design Contest 2014 were announced. The presentation also featured speeches from previous TIIC winner, Hans De Clercq, TI representative Steve Lyle, and co-sponsor Mouser Electronics' Mark Burr-Lonnon.